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	<title>Curving Normality &#187; lying with statistics</title>
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	<description>&#34;The extra-ordinary lies within the curve of normality&#34;</description>
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		<title>Newsflash: Lucia de B. gets re-trial!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rense Nieuwenhuis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dutch nurse Lucia de B., convicted to a life sentence for the murder on 7 infants during her shifts, is now entitled to a re-trial. Why do I write about it here? Because one of the grounds she was convicted on was a statistical argument. A statistical argument that has been thoroughly contested by prominent statisticians, arguing that according to the court's line of reasoning, <a href="http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/~gill/hetero2.pdf">one out of every nine nurses</a> would go to jail!

I have written before about this statistical argument, but did so in Dutch. For those interested, I'll give you a short recap, and a nice movie.]]></description>
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		<title>Lying with WordPress statistics</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:46:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I must admit that I repeatedly feel flattered by the number of page-views on my blog as shown by the WordPress statistics plugin. However, despite the nice graphical representation, they are a little too flattering for the humble number of ...]]></description>
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